In my progression, through “The Topical Memory System” by the Navigators I would be doing Philippians 4:19 next after Romans 8:32.
“And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:19 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/php.4.19.hcsb
But I have already done it here. So I feel I don’t need to do it again. Not because God could not speak something new to me.
“For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/heb.4.12.hcsb
No matter how many times we read or study any Scripture it will be alive to us in a new way or we will be reminded of another way we had heard it before. God is always creating a new perspective on His word. He is not changing it but It is alive and growing. No one person can know everything about every passage of Scripture, but God reveals it in His time. We don’t need to beat our selves up for what we don’t know yet, but we must study what God is showing us, and as we study we must be willing to pass it on to someone else.
“The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.”
Deuteronomy 29:29 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/deu.29.29.hcsb
Take the Dead Sea, the Jordan River and the Sea of Galilee. Two of these things are full of life and one is dead. As everyone knows that the Dead Sea is so salty that no living thing grows in it. But why? Since Noah’s flood, the Dead Sea has had no way to get rid of the salt that flows into it. And over the years the water has evaporated and left the salt. While the Sea of Galilee has flowed into the Jordan river and into the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea has no way to flow out to wash out the salt.
This is a good example of what we can be like if we don’t pass on the knowledge of God we have to others.
Even though the Dead Sea is dead God does not intend to leave it that way. The Dead Sea is beginning to dry up and it is leaving all the salt at the southern end and eventually it will be full of life and fish will swim in its waters again.
“He asked me, “Do you see this, son of man? ” Then he led me back to the bank of the river. When I had returned, I saw a very large number of trees along both sides of the riverbank. He said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down to the Arabah. When it enters the sea, the sea of foul water, the water of the sea becomes fresh. Every kind of living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows, and there will be a huge number of fish because this water goes there. Since the water will become fresh, there will be life everywhere the river goes. Fishermen will stand beside it from En-gedi to En-eglaim. These will become places where nets are spread out to dry. Their fish will consist of many different kinds, like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.
All kinds of trees providing food will grow along both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fresh fruit because the water comes from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for medicine.”
Ezekiel 47:6-10, 12 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/ezk.47.6-10,12.hcsb
This is the same for us. God has no intentions to leave us for dead, but for life and growth. He wants everyone to be a Sea of Galilee or the Jordan river, and not the Dead Sea.
“I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:6 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/php.1.6.hcsb
So I will be moving on to Hebrew 2:18
“For since He Himself was tested and has suffered, He is able to help those who are tested.”
Hebrews 2:18 HCSB
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